Ingress gets you moving up and around to capture portals, which are mostly located on public works of art – sculptures, murals, statues, etc – or on public buildings – post offices, fire departments, etc.

I was lucky enough to get in on the beta, and have been playing for the last few days. It’s made me have the following thought several times:

Now, if you’ve not received your invite yet, there are still things you can do with Ingress. You can read all sorts of backstory here. Once you’ve installed the app, you can submit suggested portal locations (Instructions here.)

So far, I’ve enjoyed my time in Google’s augmented reality, the G+ #Ingress trending topic has been all sorts of fun to read – it’s been a combination of people begging for invites, and some pretty impressive content. Regional factions have already started to spring up as well – I’m part of the Chicago Resistance.

So who else has gotten in? Who else is looking forward to getting in? Who has NO idea what the hell I’m talking about? Let’s talk about everything Ingress here.

I too got the invite to play, There was no portals where I live so I had to use their submit service to add some to my area. I think this is a clever way to get people out and about and off the xbox and PS3, But I think it’s more of a way of collecting information about certain areas ready for when “project glass” get’s released either way great fun!

Just take a picture on your phone go to share and and scroll down until you see the the NIA Super Ops tab, Just click on it and choose a name for your portal and follow the instructions. Hope that helps

I’m finding (on the resistance side at least) the camaraderie has been almost instant, and VERY strong…it’s pretty cool meeting new people with the same objective, even if that objective is all imaginary =)

I saw that they’re starting to roll out user invites, so hopefully more people are able to get in on the fun!

I think the games launches to the general public on the 30th November, I think at the last count there was nearly 5 million people on this, But don’t quote me. If that’s the case then this will be huge

You should give it a shot, it’s been lots of fun so far. We had our first major incursion by the Enlightened last night, and had to go take back our territory and restore all of our portals, etc. The lore behind the series has been compelling enough so far too, that it’s definitely kept my attention.

Like most, I’ve been waiting for an invite too. It doesn’t sound all that awesome to me yet everybody who plays it seems to say it’s awesome. So I really want to try it out and figure out what I’m missing…

ha, yeah that tends to happen…I was tempted to put ***I have no invites*** up in the thread, but decided against it. Thankfully there’s also been a very robust community on G+ discussing tactics, lore, etc. and coordinating attacks.

Well, I’m in Mexico Resistance. I thinks this ARG is the best idea Google had. It makes you move and you really get to know your city, also they get more locations to use as you can send them a request to open a portal in certain places. They’re getting more locations to put into Google Maps and that cannot be bad.

So far I’ve been had a blast, met some really cool people, and gotten up and around a bit more (which isn’t a bad thing for anybody). I haven’t been following the lore religiously, but what I’ve seen has been interesting, and has fit really well into the fiction.

I have collected some of the energy but that is about it. I live out in the country and sometimes I don’t feel like walking into bushes for it. Seems awesome though. Can’t wait to invest a little more time into it.

Sorry for the moment of sour grapes, I hear nothing but good things about this game and I REALLY want to start playing. Even went around the web and G+ doing a little invite begging, but alas I am still stuck at “Ingres Requires an Invitation to play. Activation Code:”
ARGH!!!!!!!!!

I’ve been playing in Liverpool, UK – i think there are about 20 players tops as even in the city centre there aren’t many portals to speak of – I’m hoping over the next few weeks some more pop up as the beta program grows :)

Essentially, it’s a location-based online multiplayer game. You have to physically go to a location and attack a sort of base or something – I’m not too sure as the game is still closed to the public as they’re still in testing phases. Hopefully they’ll open it up soon and we can all check it out! :D

you aren’t too far off! There are “Portals” located all around us, they are generally concentrated on public works of art. So far, the point is to capture these portals, and create links between portals, and generate fields between 3 portals. It’s kind of like a giant live action game of capture the flag.

The Enlightened struck again last night, taking out most of the portals in my area. Thankfully, we have a dedicated team of Resistance fighters, and most of the portals were quickly re-taken and reinforced.

I’m still impressed at the teamwork and camaraderie that’s emerged so quickly. We will probably have another Chicago Resistance meet up soon (or at least Chicago suburbs resistance), and work together to strengthen our foothold.

I got pretty lucky, I requested an invite on the Thursday that they started accepting them, and got my code on Saturday night. A friend of mine requested an invite that Friday, and is still waiting. I wonder if by any chance the invite process is based at least partially on your proximity to portals? I have a decent number a pretty short distance from me, so I’m able to be active right away.

I’d be interested to hear if people that are still waiting live in more rural areas or something.

I’m trying hard to get an invite now. Sent a graphic to the devs in hopes that I’ll get noticed. I’ll probably also have to submit so suggested portal sites since I don’t expect to see very many where I am.

I live somewhere around 10.132617, 124.848397. It’s a small city of around 100,000 people but there are a lot of Android users. I don’t know if there are already players here or if anyone else is waiting for an invite.

Exciting news – we now have a Level 8 Portal in the Chicago area. It’s one of only 6 L8 portals in the world, and I’m proud to say that 5 of those 6 are Resistance portals. Two of the guys that upgraded the portal are part of my resistance community too =)

I am playing as well (Galati in Romania). There are more Resistance players than Enlightened ones (there is actually only one active player. We, in the Resistance, count 3 players (there are at least 3 that are not that active). What do you think if Google would open this game to iOS users?

I was actually playing this on my city, I found some portals around, but since I was the only one playing there it got kind of boring =____= I took every single place on my city (not that is that big anyways) in a single day